Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Yes but the 150k went to Tubridy not to NK. There was no Covid advice
To explain the 'consultancy invoice'.
Is that the 150k NK sent in a false 'consultancy services' invoice for?
If you acted the maggot all day no breaks for years on end and look like Skeletor's wife from He-Man and its all normal behaviour in her value system she'll be grand.
I’m no fan of NK but this is not correct. This was a story Dee Forbes invented to explain the payment to Tubridy when the auditors queried them
If any of these are looking for positions/cushy numbers, people won't need their CV to know.
It probably looks a little better on the CV to say you voluntarily left your position rather than you were sacked - that's why Coveney jumped ship today.
A "good" resignation? :)
Regards...jmcc
Worth listening back to this. NK got 150,000 for providing advice on how to deal with agents during Covid. An agent giving advice on how to deal with agents?? The DG wanted NK to provide advice on how RTE should be structured during Covid. The power this man had is incredible. I find it disgusting that people would use Covid to make money off the taxpayer.
I'm sure the new DG will accept retirements. Clears the decks.
And of course this one from 1999 ish..
Claire Byrne and Joe Duffy could sing it as they sashay in.
It will be very interesting if some of the 372 pages here are echoed on Monday and Tuesday.
She’s retiring in 7 weeks. Even if she survives….she’s gone at the end of August anyway. But that’s a potentially double-edged sword for the DG. If he sacks/removes her people will say “she was retiring next month”. If he doesn’t they’ll say “look at what she got away with and all the junkets she brought the hubby on*” etc.
What the DG will be weighing up now is the PR “cost” of another “resignation” (pre-sacking resignation) and the optics of same. The mental health card played last week might be her saving grace….
If I were a gambling man (which I’m not), I would bet she might retire a little earlier than planned, but with these people who knows?
* on the “+1” policy she mentioned that she formulated. I understand if you’re inviting guests you might have a +1 for some (but not all) events. What I find very weird and strange about it is that she thought as the host it’s ok for her to have a +1 too - that’s not by any means normal. And it seemed to be for all the major events. RTÉ, i.e. us, ultimately paid for his trips, concert tickets, meals, bus from one part of Drumcondra to another part of Drumcondra etc etc
Noel Kelly or Tubs could enter to this.
It seems like she was given a golden handshake as she had started asking too many questions about Tubridy pay deal and was looking for an actual pay cut etc.
She would not have signed off on the under the counter payments - at least according to her statement.
So they replaced her with a new CFO who they thought would be more pliant / go along with the flow.
But the new CFO though seeming out of his depth ultimately blew the lid on the shenanigans by bringing the barter account to audit attention.
I believe Ian Dempsey's brother is in RTE HR, so there is another connection.
No idea far above my pay grade but if there is any suggestion I am sure they will be on it
Gerry Ryan's godfather/Uncle was Eamon Andrews, who was Chairman of the Radio Eireann Authority in the 60's.
Cathal Murray nephew of Colm Murray
2fm producer Lindy Clarke is the daughter of the former head of 2fm John Clarke
Des Cahill mentioned in an interview with Pat Kenny a couple of months ago that his son is a producer on the Sunday Game
When the father died there were rumors that a scandal was going to break about him. But once dead in Irish tradition he was a great lad.
She is retiring in 7 weeks so doesn't care. I guarantee you she has plenty to hide and wants out. She was the biggest liar at the Oireachtas committees thus far.
She may play the mental health card this week and clam up for the 7 weeks and then cannot be touched.
I don't get it. Was she made redundant or what?
If you're going down that road, you may include An Post, ESB, HSE...etc for that family ties check.
Will she survive the reshuffle of the board?
I hear Coveney has a few new musical scripts in development - West Cork Story - La La land - Fiddler On The Board
She can read out showbiz reports like a teenager while people order their chips
She would be about an annoying as she is now
That's a remarkably quick definitive answer, less than 60 seconds!!
No
Is Ciaran Mullooly related to the Mullooly person on RTE's legal team?
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